Whereas There is Nothing More Evident in Holy Scriptures, Than when a Nation Or People Do With-draw Their Affections from God and His Holy Ordinances, and Suffer Themselves to be Mis-guided by Their Wild and Natural Appetites ... I Have Therefore Thought Fit ... to Publish & Proclaim a Solemn Day of Fast and Prayer ... Wednesday the 26th of this Instant October ... Given Under My Hand at Fort William Henry this Sixth Day of October, 1698 ...